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Step Up for Stepping Strong Employee Wellness Initiative

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: What is Step Up for Stepping Strong and what does it support?A: Step Up for Stepping Strong is a wellness initiative that supports innovative trauma research and patient care through The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Established by Boston Marathon bombing survivors, The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation fuels trauma research and care to benefit civilians and military personnel worldwide who have suffered from the devastation of traumatic injuries and events.

Q: When does the program take place?A: Employee registration is open August 1-31, and the steps challenge is September 1-30.

Q: Who can participate?A: Anyone. All companies can make a philanthropic gift to create a team and every employee can join their company team and participate in the steps challenge. Employees choose their daily steps goal (4K, 8K, 12K), so it doesn’t matter if you take 5,000 or 20,000 steps a day—everyone can participate. The consistent pursuit of a daily goal is the key health benefit, and walking is a low-impact exercise that burns calories while also improving circulation, blood pressure, muscle definition, and overall mood.

Q: Is there a cost for employees to participate?A: The program is FREE for employees and by participating you can win great prizes for staying active and hitting your daily steps goal.

Q: What are some of the incentives to participate?A: The program provides employees many incentives to participate, such as:

Dick’s Sporting Goods coupon just for registering

Weekly prize drawings from all active participants for a Fitbit Blaze smart watch

Certificate of participation to hang in your workspace

Grand prize for the company team whose members hit their daily goal the most

Weekly access to health and wellness content from BWH physicians

Pride in your company for supporting trauma patients and critical medical research

For companies, the program provides a user-friendly way to motivate healthy and active employee behavior through philanthropy, including:

Internal promotion of social responsibility and philanthropy

Increase employee camaraderie and morale

Company pride in supporting an underfunded area that affects millions and could one day impact the lives of employees or their loved one

Q: How do I enroll my company in the program?A: You can create your corporate team by contacting Zachary Dollar, director of corporate partnerships and cause marketing, at zdollar@partners.org or 617-424-4299.

Q: My company has a team. How do I register?A: Sign up via mobile:

Go to www.bwhstepup.org

Choose your daily steps goal (4K, 8K, 12K) – this will prompt you to download the Stridekick app from the iTunes or Google Play store

Log in or create a Stridekick account and connect your tracking device

Log in or select ‘Sign up’ to create a Stridekick account and connect your device

Select your company from the drop-down list

Enter your 5-digit ZIP code

Get moving! You’ve been added to the challenge.

Download the Stridekick app from the iTunes or Google Play store

Q: What is Stridekick?A: Stridekick is a social fitness platform connecting diverse communities through challenges, activity data, and healthy lifestyle content. When you join the Step Up for Stepping Strong daily steps challenge and connect your device, Stridekick will automatically track your activity and show you where you are at in hitting your goal, as well as show you the other participants with the same daily goal (4K, 8K, 12K).

Q: How does syncing work?A: Stridekick grabs your data automatically after you sync your device, but it can’t pull data directly from your device so you have to sync it!

To sync, open up your device app on your phone. We recommend syncing several times a day to ensure your steps are counted for each challenge. There is a slight delay, so it may take up to 10 minutes for your data to reach Stridekick.

There is also a 72-hour grace period that allows participants to sync after each day in a challenge.

*If you do not see your activity after several sync attempts or you forgot to sync for over 72 hours, reach out to Stridekick for assistance by using the help icon on the bottom right of the challenge screen or at stridekick.team@stridekick.mail.intercom.io.

Q: How will my information be displayed in the Step Up for Stepping Strong challenge?A: Other challenge participants will only be able to see the username you create when setting up your Stridekick account.

Q: Can I use Stridekick after the Step Up for Stepping Strong challenge is over?A: Yes! Stridekick is free to use for individuals and small groups. You can create your own challenges, join public challenges created by other Stridekick users, and invite your friends and coworkers to join along with you.

Q: Need help or have questions?A: For questions about Step Up for Stepping Strong or if your company is interested in participating, please contact Zachary Dollar, director of corporate partnerships and cause marketing, at zdollar@partners.org or 617-424-4299.